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Sugar shacks are notoriously heavy on the maple and the meat, but one Montreal restaurant is making the classic Quebec meal more accessible to those who prefer a plant-based diet. On March 18 and 19, Mile End vegan diner Mimi & Jones is hosting a two-day cabane à sucre style brunch with mimosa specials.

For $25 per person, guests can indulge in all the sweet and savoury dishes, including scrambled tofu, seitan bacon, pancakes with maple syrup, homemade beans, cretons, toast, breakfast potatoes and maple taffy. The traditional sugary treat will be prepared on snow outside on the restaurant terrasse.

The weekend brunch is a break from the spot’s usual diner fare, that includes thick dairy-free shakes in fanciful flavours like orange creamsicle, chai and matcha ($9.75), and meat- and…

To say the last few months have been challenging for the restaurant industry is an understatement. Fortunately, as operations begin to normalize and the industry emerges from the recent pandemic, owners and business leaders will likely find themselves with more time to dedicate to strategy in order to drive traffic and awareness.

The pandemic created a surge in online ordering and carryout the industry hasn’t previously seen. Ma and Pa shops that may have once been cash only or didn’t take reservations were forced to quickly adapt to survive, and for many, that meant creating website. For restaurants and chains that already had a web presence, it was time to further integrate with Google’s ecosystem via their social media, website, menu integrations and more.

Wherever your…

Kelly Clarkson effortlessly brought back disco by covering Donna Summer‘s hit “She Works Hard for the Money” for her talk show’s latest “Kellyoke” segment on Friday (Nov. 6).

The song perfectly fit the theme of the hour, “Restaurant Resurgence: Salute to Servers,” since Summer reportedly found inspiration for the song when she met a hardworking waitress named Onetta at the West Hollywood restaurant Chasen’s.

According to LAist, “She went to the bathroom and saw the attendant taking a nap with a small TV on. Donna startled the woman from her nap, and the woman told Donna she worked 2 jobs and was really tired. Donna thought to herself, ‘Wow, she really works hard for her money.'” Summer wrote the song in about 20 minutes that same night. She even mentions the waitress by name in the…